John Sweeney Quotes
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.
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Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.
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There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
